The body of Hannah Ahlers is brought to her memorial service on Friday, Oct. 13, 2017 at Harvest Riverside. Ahlers was one of the 58 victims in the Las Vegas mass shooting earlier this month. (Stan Lim, Redlands Daily Facts/SCNG)

Brian Ahlers holds his daughter Hailey, 3, while attending the memorial service for their wife/mother, Hannah Ahlers on Friday, Oct. 13, 2017 at Harvest Riverside. Ahlers was one of the 58 victims in the Las Vegas mass shooting earlier this month. (Stan Lim, Redlands Daily Facts/SCNG)

A young man pays his respects to Hannah Ahlers before the start of her memorial service on Friday, Oct. 13, 2017 at Harvest Riverside. Ahlers was one of the 58 victims in the Las Vegas mass shooting earlier this month. (Stan Lim, Redlands Daily Facts/SCNG)

Family and friends attend the memorial service for Hannah Ahlers on Friday, Oct. 13, 2017 at Harvest Riverside. Ahlers was one of the 58 victims in the Las Vegas mass shooting earlier this month. (Stan Lim, Redlands Daily Facts/SCNG)

Administrative Pastor Brad Ormonde speaks during the memorial service for Hannah Ahlers on Friday, Oct. 13, 2017 at Harvest Riverside. Ahlers was one of the 58 victims in the Las Vegas mass shooting earlier this month. (Stan Lim, Redlands Daily Facts/SCNG)

Elder and family friend Jason Pendleton speaks during the memorial service for Hannah Ahlers on Friday, Oct. 13, 2017 at Harvest Riverside. Ahlers was one of the 58 victims in the Las Vegas mass shooting earlier this month. (Stan Lim, Redlands Daily Facts/SCNG)

Family friend Chris Hopkins speaks during the memorial service for Hannah Ahlers on Friday, Oct. 13, 2017 at Harvest Riverside. Ahlers was one of the 58 victims in the Las Vegas mass shooting earlier this month. (Stan Lim, Redlands Daily Facts/SCNG)

Administrative Pastor Brad Ormonde speaks during the memorial service for Hannah Ahlers on Friday, Oct. 13, 2017 at Harvest Riverside. Ahlers was one of the 58 victims in the Las Vegas mass shooting earlier this month. (Stan Lim, Redlands Daily Facts/SCNG)

The body of Hannah Ahlers is brought out to a waiting hearse after her memorial service on Friday, Oct. 13, 2017 at Harvest Riverside. Ahlers was one of the 58 victims in the Las Vegas mass shooting earlier this month. (Stan Lim, Redlands Daily Facts/SCNG)

The body of Hannah Ahlers is brought out to a waiting hearse after her memorial service on Friday, Oct. 13, 2017 at Harvest Riverside. Ahlers was one of the 58 victims in the Las Vegas mass shooting earlier this month. (Stan Lim, Redlands Daily Facts/SCNG)

Brian Ahlers comforts his son Brice, after attending the memorial service for their wife/mother, Hannah Ahlers on Friday, Oct. 13, 2017 at Harvest Riverside. Ahlers was one of the 58 victims in the Las Vegas mass shooting earlier this month. (Stan Lim, Redlands Daily Facts/SCNG)

She was a loving mother, daughter, the “cool mom” to several of her friends’ children, and a devout follower of Christ.

That is how some of the hundreds who gathered Friday, Oct. 13, at Harvest Christian Fellowship in Riverside remembered Ahlers, who was killed in the mass shooting Oct. 1 at the Route 91 Harvest music festival in Las Vegas.

“Hannah wasn’t just a friend — she was family,” said longtime friend Chris Hopkins. “She was never one to pass judgment and her smile still lights up a room. I’m going to miss our random phone calls, all of our trips as a family. And those trips are not going to stop (because) Hannah will always be with us.”

Photos of Ahlers, 34, of Beaumont, with her family and friends greeted hundreds of mourners Friday. Her white-and-Tiffany blue casket, adorned with a flower and a framed American flag, sat in front of the church’s main stage.

A photo of a smiling Ahlers was projected on three screens inside the church. Hopkins looked at it often as he spoke.

“She’s my angel now,” he said.

Hannah Ahlers was born June 2, 1983, to Robert Joseph Magiera and Theresa Lassette Hill in Bellflower.

She grew up in El Monte before her family moved to Redlands in 1987.

Her love for Christ was established at a young age. In fact, recalled friend Jason Pendleton, Ahlers first met her husband at youth group at Redlands Church of Christ.

She was 10 at the time.

Six years later, Brian Ahlers asked his future bride out on a date. It wasn’t too long after that he went off to school “to follow in his father’s footsteps” at Redlands Jewelers, Pendleton said, that Brian Ahlers realized he had “one gem in his life he simply couldn’t live without.”

Brian Ahlers proposed at a Fourth of July celebration, and six months later on Jan. 21, 2001, the couple “stood before family and God and said ‘I do.'” Hannah Ahlers was just 17.

“It’s hard to believe that 17 years later she would take her last breath on Earth. But you know, she was proud of those 17 years,” Pendleton said.

Pendleton recalled the couple’s early years of married life briefly, sharing a story about Hannah Ahlers purchasing furniture for the couple’s new home on a whim.

Her husband, Pendleton said, came home “shocked” and called the furniture store to have the items returned.

“It was one of the very few times I saw Brian say no to Hannah,” Pendleton said with a chuckle.

Hannah Ahlers loved to shop and express herself with fashion. She loved manicures and pedicures and “loved to get her hair did,” he continued.

She enjoyed being a stay-at-home mom to her three children: Briannah, 14, Brice, 11, and Hailey, 3.

She loved keeping her house in order and spending time with family and friends whenever she could.

“What she really loved though was spending time with her best friend, Brian,” Pendleton said, recalling that Friday nights in the Ahlers home was commonly known as “Date Night.”

“One love more important than anything else was her love for Jesus Christ,” he continued. “And she will spend an eternity in the presence of that love, and I know that was one of her heart’s desires.”

In addition to her husband and three children, Ahlers is survived by her father, mother, and her step-father Frank Hill; brother and sister-in-law Lance and Vicky Miller; sister and brother-in-law Sarah and Adrian Avalos; several nieces and nephews; and her in-laws, including Dave and Chris Ahlers, and Pamela and Vern Klatt.

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